[1195] Cicero, Oration against Vatinius, II.—Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 9.
[1196] Scholiast of Bobbio, On Cicero’s Oration against Vatinius, p. 330, edit. Orelli.—Appian, Civil Wars, II. 2 and 12.
[1197] Appian, Civil Wars, II. 12.
[1198] Suetonius, Cæsar, 20.
[1199] “He (Ariovistus) knows, by his messengers, that in causing Cæsar’s death he would gratify a number of great persons at Rome; his death would win to him their favour and friendship.” (Cæsar, War in Gaul, I. 44.)
[1200] Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 12.
[1201] Cicero, Letters to Quintus, I. 2.
[1202] Suetonius, Cæsar, 23; Nero, 2.
[1203] Suetonius, Cæsar, 23.—Valerius Maximus, III. 7, 9.
[1204] “At the gates of Rome there was a general invested with authority for many years, and at the head of a great army (cum magno exercitu). Was he my enemy? I do not say he was; but I knew that when people said so, he was silent.” (Cicero, Oration after his return in the Senate, 13.)—“Oppressos, vos, inquit, tenebo exercitu Cæsaris.” (Cicero, Letters to Atticus, II. 16.)—“Clodius said he would invade the curia at the head of Cæsar’s army.” (Cicero, Oration on the Report of the Augurs, 22.)—“Cæsar had already gone out of Rome with his army.” (Dio Cassius, XXXVIII. 17.)